Since January 2025, tech job postings have asked for 25% fewer skills but 5% more experience | AI spending among OpenAI’s heaviest research users is growing at 129% per month | 26% of young-adult chatbot users say they feel dependent on AI, but the addiction scales disagree | Undo = the user’s escape hatch | Suno 6 sounds worse than Suno 5 | Anthropic’s 3 scenarios for how AI will transform the economy forget the robots | Sometimes you should make users stop and think | Mini

Information foraging theory is the best explanation of how people behave in information-rich environments, from the original web to today’s AI chatbots. Users act like animals hunting for food: they follow information scent, exploit information patches, and pick an information diet that maximizes value gained per second spent.

Graph-based UI for AI is better than linear chat for design tasks | Storytelling improves with a keyframing UI | With a better history UI, clients reused a designer’s past alternatives 2.6× as often as they generated new material | Fast wins make users stay | Mental models: the map in the user’s head always wins | Users hold only 2 mental models of AI: tool or coworker | Sticky navigation gives users a firm foundation but consumes pixels

Users referred from AI answers convert 60% better than other traffic | The visibility of sources in AI responses can shift 46x overnight without users noticing | Use AI to uncover the hidden disagreements behind a team’s apparent consensus | A 17-item questionnaire is the best-validated way to survey attitudes toward AI | The sunk cost fallacy | The tools palette

Users parse a layout before they read its labels. Whitespace, borders, alignment, color, and motion determine what belongs together. When these cues fight the content, users attach the label, price, warning, status, or action to the wrong object. Proximity, similarity, enclosure, and the other Gestalt cues guide the eye, snapping visual chaos into clarity.

A better design system improved usability | AI persuades even when people know it’s AI | Fewer features = better usability | Readers prefer AI stories if they don’t know it’s AI | The stepper design pattern for adjusting numeric values

Top 10 UX slogans explained by Greek gods | Improve your Google search results by boosting the sites you like | Academic research on AI user experience uses outdated models | Worker bees send 13 more AI messages per week than their executives | Free AI accounts dominate even in the enterprise | AI splits company culture down the middle, and managers are the tiebreaker | The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology

Pointing time depends on two numbers: target distance and target size. Paul Fitts quantified this in 1954, explaining every mouse move and thumb tap since then. Make frequent targets big and near, make destructive ones small and far, and don’t supersize everything else. The law holds up in VR and AR, at degraded throughput. And AI doesn’t repeal it; it merely shrinks pointing’s kingdom as conversation replaces cascades of clicks.

Robert Cialdini’s 7 principles of persuasion are reciprocity, commitment and consistency, social proof, authority, liking, scarcity, and unity. They are the bedrock of persuasive UX design, and they work because they’re mental shortcuts hardwired by evolution to keep our ancestors alive

Chinese AI models deliver 64% of entry-level human office-work quality in new benchmark | AI breaks the billable-hours model for consulting and shifts it to outcome-based pricing | Workers delegate whole tasks to AI but rarely review the output | Turning error messages into recovery tools | The Pareto Frontier of advancing AI capabilities | The left-digit effect is why $2.99 outsells the simpler $3.00 | Alleviating the empty-screen problem | AI usage may follow a power law in

AI conducting user interviews mostly failed to probe deeply | AI UI tools break 1/4 of their design promises | The planning fallacy makes us believe more in schedules than they deserve | Cards as a UI element | Humans are middleware for AI | How to make AI support extended tasks that take weeks to complete | Two recommended AI videos in sharply different genres and durations

A card packs everything about one item (image, title, key facts, action) inside a clearly bounded rectangle that the user’s visual system sees as a single object, which is why cards excel at presenting browsable collections of self-contained things. But boxing everything produces flabby layouts with pitiful information density, and now that AI makes cards that no designer ever inspects, the old guidelines need a new enforcement mechanism.

The 50 most common user research methods scored on breadth of scope, depth of insights, remote suitability, and cost, then ranked by total value.

AI spending growing 75% per year at the median firm | An AI agent that argued back against design ideas helped designers improve | A design is a hypothesis: try to defeat it | AI can generate superior accessibility when it prioritizes communication density over narrative completeness | Skeleton screens buy patience, not speed | Checkout design dials the pain of paying up or down

New music video about hedonic adaptation | AI better at some forms of knowledge work than at others | AI increasingly used for sensemaking among corporate users | Users want to approve certain autonomous actions | For exploratory creation, a branching UI beat the traditional linear chat interface to the AI backend model | Base-rate neglect: one vivid anecdote outweighs a thousand statistics | The ***** UI for user ratings | Experimental system connects specific words in the u